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Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by Steko on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @08:11PM (#2972070)
Google's like that guy who says he's sick of rich douchebags driving their Porsches around and cutting everyone else off in traffic but then he wins the lottery and what do you know he goes out and buys a Porsche and finds that the superior handling, acceleration and compact chassis lends itself to exploiting gaps in traffic they would not have with their old Honda Accord.
Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by barista on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @08:59PM (#2972171)
It was but obvious that Google will start suing the moment they got their hands on patents that they can use to sue people with. So much for Do no evil :)
Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by chc on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @09:25PM (#2972231)
It's "Don't be evil" — a much less ambitious goal. Ordinary people do marginally evil things all the time without being thought of as being evil on the whole.

And it's a pretty weird morality where protecting yourself makes you, as a whole, "evil."

Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by Steko on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @09:43PM (#2972275)
I don't see where Good or Evil enter into any of this.

Does Android/HTC infringe on some Apple patents? Maybe.

Does Apple infringe on some of these patents Google has given to HTC? Maybe.

Are the likely outcomes more favorable to Android/Google/HTC with Google having given HTC these patents? Almost certainly.

Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by barista on Thursday September 08, 2011 @12:50AM (#2972671)
So that's how you justify Google's actions? By play of words?
Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by bad_user on Thursday September 08, 2011 @12:57AM (#2972689)
In my eyes, Google is just a Microsoft wannabe.

That said, I do not think their current actions are in any way evil or immoral. In fact I would lose faith in Android if they weren't doing this.

Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by zmmmmm on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @10:27PM (#2972392)
So I wonder if this definition of suing (transferring a patent to a third party who uses it defensively) is evil to you, how evil is Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, etc?
Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by barista on Thursday September 08, 2011 @12:49AM (#2972667)
I never said Apple Oracle or Microsoft are not evil but they never did either. Google is hypocrite here claiming to do no evil while suing others through a partner.
Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by zmmmmm on Thursday September 08, 2011 @03:38AM (#2972988)
So in your morality hypocrisy trumps everything. Being a tiny bit evil and advocating against being evil is worse to you than actually being extremely evil and saying nothing?
Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by barista on Thursday September 08, 2011 @02:28PM (#2975051)
Being evil while proclaiming to not do evil is lying. What credibility would you grant to a company that does it. And this is just one occurance. Claiming to be open when withholding source code to latest android releases, stealing content from publishers like yelp to boost its own local pages. Giving preferential treatment to its own sites/products over others in search results... the list is endless.